Edsurge

DECEMBER 13, 2019

On the other hand, there is a paucity of coverage about edtech companies that grow their businesses with little or no venture capital or outside investment. Bootstrapped companies rarely have “unicorn” potential and most aren’t nearly as sexy as their venture-backed counterparts. In a way, it makes sense. Below is our story.

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Barrow Media Center: Expect the Miraculous

JANUARY 12, 2016

After almost two months of working on the 2015-2016 student book budget project, the books are rolling in to the library, and the excitement is brewing. Students had $5,000 to spend on books. It's book budget unpacking day! — Andy Plemmons (@plemmonsa) January 12, 2016.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 24, 2018

In mid-September this year, Yogome , an educational startup founded in Mexico that also operates in San Francisco, held a multi-day bash of team meetings and parties for its all employees in Mexico City. John McIntire, who is chairman of Yogome’s board, is currently acting CEO of the company and overseeing the liquidation of assets.

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Edsurge

APRIL 26, 2021

Every now and then, it's been hard to do a call while the kids are screaming or something like that, but between meetings, to see them or have lunch with them or go on a walk with them, that part has been actually quite nice.” EdSurge: How did you adapt to meet the needs of students during the pandemic? They were real education.

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Edsurge

JUNE 12, 2019

Scheduling isn’t for the faint of heart, as anyone who’s tried to find a time and room for a team meeting well knows. That’s a tall order for any organization—and especially for a small company like Coursedog , which claims its scheduling software can help colleges and universities.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 29, 2023

The proportion of high school graduates going directly to college has fallen from a high of 70 percent in 2016 to 62 percent in 2021. It’s the brainchild of an advertising executive, Roy Spence, the man behind such well-known slogans as “Don’t Mess With Texas” and “You are now free to move about the country.” Air Force.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 15, 2016

Alan November Alan November: So, there’s a seminal book by a Harvard business school professor named Shoshana Zuboff, called In The Age of the Smart Machine. So, that book has influenced me a lot. Some librarians have gotten wiped out as a result of schools thinking they don’t need books (though it’s not a big number).

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Teacher Reboot Camp

JUNE 23, 2016

If you are in Denver, I’d love the chance to meet you face-to-face and if not we can still enjoy each other’s company virtually. I have also listed some other free events I am going to try to attend that look like great opportunities to meet other passionate educators that do not require ISTE badges.

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EdNews Daily

NOVEMBER 8, 2016

As numerous students joined the platform, and thousands of teachers came on board to meet this demand, the costs to facilitate the service were subsequently driven down to the point where 51Talk had an efficient and profitable business model. What were two top motivating factors behind starting the company?

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techlearning

JULY 17, 2018

Many teachers have older books that were not written to the standards and therefore don’t cover the new content. Carolina’s Building Blocks of Science |3D was designed to meet the full intent of California’s Science Framework and reflect its vision and philosophy. We were careful to meet every facet of CA NGSS.”

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The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 10, 2019

Enhanced Transcript Motivating Struggling Learners in Summer School and in Class Everyday Link to show: www.coolcatteacher.com/e511 Reshared on: June 10, 2019 Original Air Date: June 3, 2018 Vicki: Today we’re talking with my friend, Dr. Barbara Blackburn about her book, Motivating Struggling Learners: 10 Ways to Build Student Success.

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The Principal of Change

AUGUST 4, 2017

In “ The Innovator’s Mindset “, I use the following definition: Innovation is a common term in many educational circles today and has been used a number of times in this book already. For the purpose of this book, I’m defining innovation as a way of thinking that creates something new and better.

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The Principal of Change

JUNE 26, 2017

line of books, we have formed a subsidiary publishing company, IMpress. This is a joint venture that will focus on publishing four to six books each year, focused on innovation, empowerment, leadership and unleashing talent at all levels of an organization. You have deadlines that you have to meet (i.e., report cards).

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 8, 2019

Kids can get lost because they don’t have the right book or they’re reluctant to speak up when everyone around them is so quiet. Remarkably, the Vermont-based company has been a leader in the field of literacy for nearly 100 years. They are excited to track their own progress in real-time and to choose from a wide range of books.

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Edsurge

MARCH 8, 2019

The annual tradition dates back to 2012, and features early-stage companies showing off the latest efforts to solve intractable problems across the education landscape. The company offers a suite of administrative software to help daycare providers execute a variety of tasks, from managing government subsidies to financial bookkeeping.

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Barrow Media Center: Expect the Miraculous

JANUARY 14, 2016

We have continued to unpack our student book budget purchases this weeks thanks to generous funding from James Patterson. I just happened to be near Ajacea, 5th grader, when she was setting up displays of books for people to see. She would set up some books and then take them down because she didn’t like the way they looked.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 4, 2018

Vicki: Today we’re talking with my friend, Dr. Barbara Blackburn about her book, Motivating Struggling Learners: 10 Ways to Build Student Success. We need to get to know them so that we can meet those needs. Blackburn, an international speaker, was named one of the top 30 Global Gurus in Education in 2016 and 2017. Vicki: Wow.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 7, 2018

I really do build classroom cohort so that we meet outside of the classroom as groups where we can really collaborate together and plan together. In 2016, Debra was Johnston’s District Teacher of the Year, and was a finalist for state Teacher of the Year for Rhode Island. This company has no impact on the editorial content of the show.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 27, 2016

Companies should contact Steve Hargadon at steve@hargadon.com for further details on opportunities to connect with our network.) Tim Stuart (Executive Director of Strategic Programs, Singapore American School), and Susan Colt Willcox (President, Big Book: Pages For Peace). You can also post to our discussion forum.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

Some families who meet the income requirements qualify for Head Start, a federally-funded preschool program for children living in poverty, but letting children attend means sending them on a long bus ride that could last over an hour, something many parents are unwilling to do. Aleah Wolsey, 5, is one of those students. “We

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

Makerspaces are expected to reach accelerated classroom adoption in less than one year, according to the K-12 Edition of the 2016 New Media Consortium Horizon Report. All the student has to do is subscribe to Shmoop’s 12-month student plan between November 1, 2016 and January 15, 2017, and then email their essay to Shmoop HQ.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

As she puts it, she was “leaving a cushion”—a steady job she’d held for 10 years at an e-commerce company in New York—“for a question mark”—running a child care program out of her home. All Our Kin equipped her with enough basic knowledge and confidence to open her program to the public in September 2016. It’s a learning curve.

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EdTechTeam

OCTOBER 14, 2016

Custom solutions are alsoavailable to meet the specific needs of a school or district. Launched in late June 2016, EdTechTeam Press now offers 12 titles and HAS sold over ten thousand books in the three months since the program Launched.

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Reading By Example

NOVEMBER 26, 2016

Liao shares how she received 43 rejections and didn’t meet her goal of 100. He points out the problems in not paying for technology that supports student learning, including the challenge of smaller software companies to produce excellent resources. Why 100 rejections? I was so thankful when I discovered this post.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

For the large scale systemic work, the company typically takes a cohort of schools through a variety of workshops to support redesign on a larger scale. Sometimes the company works in a particular region to manage a large-scale systemic change across multiple districts and charter networks.

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Edsurge

MAY 4, 2023

Ara Austin And so starting around 2016, academic leaders in the university’s School of Molecular Sciences decided to experiment with offering rigorous biochemistry programs to remote students — complete with hands-on lab experiences. The next month, she started a job at a biotech and drug discovery company.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 26, 2018

The company prohibits most third parties from selling new devices to school districts, so Miller couldn’t place a bulk order with Best Buy as a district official. A student in New York uses Google Docs on her classroom iPad to discuss themes in the class’s latest book with her group. Apple backed down.

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EdTechTeam

AUGUST 9, 2019

I wanted to learn more about Jennifer’s perspective on edtech for social good, and after an introduction from Al, she was kind enough to meet with me via Hangout to share more of her work. Jennifer has been doing her part to get all hands on deck, working with the UN since 2016 to connect schools to these goals in meaningful ways.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 16, 2017

A robot built by students to research endangered frogs in Lake Titicaca, in Peru, being tested in June, 2016, by Lindsey Hamblin (left), then a Skyline High School senior, and Callie Meyers, then a Skyline junior. The district partners with more than 60 companies, adminstrators say, many in the Boulder-Longmont area. LONGMONT, Colo. —

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Marketplace K-12

JUNE 11, 2016

Publishers and education companies can come to the aid of struggling schools in a number of ways that would support both students and teachers, a nationally recognized principal told a room full of business executives gathered here on Wednesday. Philadelphia.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 18, 2017

With a huge shortage of college graduates in data and computer science, tech companies are taking matters into their own hands and providing education directly to prospective tech workers. We talk about the days long gone when companies trained employees from the ground up and now we’re talking about companies training employees again. “We

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Edsurge

MARCH 28, 2018

Those professors’ individual efforts got a boost in 2016, when Gov. The basic skeleton of the book was reviewed by other faculty in the department, who checked that the course and overall program objectives were covered. “We His office also oversees making sure content meets accessibility guidelines.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 16, 2023

She ultimately wrote a book, “Discovering Dyscalculia” about her family’s journey, and now runs workshops for parents of children with dyscalculia.) Elliott’s company, TouchMath, introduced a screener earlier this year that can identify signs of math disabilities, like dyscalculia, in children as young as age 3.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 30, 2018

What’s different about the trend today is that educational technology companies are eagerly marketing software under the “personalized learning” label. It also invested in software like ST Math and the reading program Lexia, created by the Rosetta Stone company. DeVonté Trask, 11. Lexia costs around $5,000 per year.

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Edsurge

MARCH 13, 2018

Rather, meet Ted Dintersmith, who has spent nearly 20 years as a partner at Charles River Ventures, an early-stage investment firm. These days, he’s no longer spending time in company boardrooms, but rather in schools and classrooms. I went to all 50 states in 2015 and 2016, visiting a couple hundred schools.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 20, 2017

She also noted that audio books have done a lot to spark literary interest in her students, and encouraged entrepreneurs to invest in that space. We meet at the corner of Broadway and edtech,” says Harber to the crowd. “We million in 2016. We are working to build an army of edtech entrepreneurs to solve education problems.”

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 28, 2020

percent of all school-age children in the fall of 2016, the last year for which such data is available. Two of her students who work for a cleaning company that services a local Home Depot recently sacrificed their lunch break to sit in on a lesson they accessed through their cell phones. million English-language learners (ELLs).

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